MSM Bias

Stephen Lewis – Fired By The UN

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I thought I would point out that last night the CBC says that Lewis will be leaving his post with the United Nations at the end of this year.But in an interview I saw with him, he openly admitted that he would love to stay on but the choice was not his, but it was the U.N.’s.

i.e. He got his ass fired.

What does a Dipper have to do to get fired by the most useless left leaning political entity in the world? I mean you can sit around collect a paycheck, keep your mouth shut and be happy for decades working for the UN, yet he got fired.

Ceasefire In Middle East Blamed For Disney Store Plummeting Sales

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Reuters photographer Sharif Karim’s checklist before heading off to take a few snaps in Beirut.
Camera – Check
Film – Check
Food and Water – Check
Extra Flash Batteries – Check
Bag full of stuffed toys to stage photos – Check

It’s a few days old, but for posterity I thought I would post these lovely heartwrenching images all taken by the same photographer, Sharif Karim, all with pristine and clean children’s toys. I have included a link and the original text that came with the image.

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A toy lies among the wreckage of a demolished building in the Hizbollah stronghold that was targeted by Israeli air strikes in southern Beirut July 26, 2006. REUTERS/Sharif Karim(LEBANON)

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A toy is seen in Beirut suburbs, after it was targeted by Israeli air strikes in southern Beirut July 21, 2006. REUTERS/Sharif Karim (LEBANON)

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A building is destroyed in a Hizbollah stronghold targeted by Israeli air strikes in southern Beirut July 28, 2006. REUTERS/Sharif Karim (LEBANON)

How many toys does Sharif Karim have in his bag of tricks??

H/T Slublog (via my friend Alan)

Having Your Cake And Eating It Too

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Ghosts of Mr. Dithers…

When the Lebanese Canadian evacuation wasn’t to the liking of left leaning Canadians, they criticized and said a slowdown was because the Prime Minister’s office was calling every shot.

When rumour got out that MPs were told to run all press releases/statements through the Prime Minister’s Office, the press and leftists fried PM Harper for being too controlling.

Yet….

When Harper doesn’t show up at the Outgames, instead letting his Montreal based Cabinet Minister have the honours he gets sacked for not taking part.

And once again, after letting his Health Minister, Tony Clement, ably handle the responsibility of attending the International AIDS Conference, the Prime Minister takes a beating from the press and the lefties for not attending.

For all you moonbats, what’s it going to be? Do you want his hands in the cake or do you want him to let his team of chef’s do the baking?

Make up your freaking minds already.

Ex-Liberal Ann Cools Disagrees With Harper and MSM Calls It Dissent. Are They High?

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Can I have some of what they’re smoking?

The Daily Herald Tribune is calling Ann Cools’ disagreement on the Tory position in the Middle East “dissension in the ranks”. I would hardly call an ex-Liberal, red Tory disagreeing with the PM “dissent”.
From her own website:

Anne Clare Cools is a Senator from Ontario. In 1984 His Excellency Governor-General Edward Schreyer summoned her to the Senate on the advice of Rt. Hon. Pierre E. Trudeau. Her appointment to the Senate continued a long career of community organization and social services in the field of family violence and family conflict. As of June 8th 2004, Senator Cools is a Conservative Senator from Ontario.

So

a) she was summoned to the senate on the advice of Pierre “La Communiste” Trudeau.

b) she has a long career of community organization and social service, things that are usually championed by the left.

Let’s look closer at her profile:

Senator Cools’ representation in the community and her involvement with the Liberal Party of Canada is long standing. She was the federal Liberal candidate in the Federal General Elections of 1979 and 1980 in Toronto’s Rosedale Riding. She was also Vice-Chair of the Greater Toronto Liberal Caucus in 1993, 1994 and 1995.

So how did Ann Cools become a Conservative? She did not want to be tied to the Adscam Liberals and the Gun Registry boondoggle. She was fed up with the graft, etc. It had absolutely nothing to do with her political views on foreign policy. Make no mistake about Ann Cools. She is as red a Tory as you can find in Canada.

Senator Anne Cools announced today that she will no longer be sitting as a Liberal senator and will be joining the Conservative caucus in the Senate. Senator Cools described her decision as being driven by her inability to defend repeated Liberal spending scandals, particularly the billions wasted on the sponsorship scandal and the billions on the gun registry.”I can no longer defend the Liberal record. Like so many Canadians, I had been hopeful that Mr. Martin would initiate a new era, a genesis and renewal in the Liberal government. I had hoped for an affirmation of responsible government, diligent stewardship of public moneys and renewed leadership, accountable to elected members and the public, not its paid advisors,” said Senator Cools. “But we have seen the opposite. We now know that Mr. Martin’s promised review of the gun registry was posturing and optics.”

Senator Cools came to her decision after months of contemplation and introspection. Her decision to become a Conservative Senator, rather than an independent, was prompted by her personal respect for Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper. She described Harper as “Canada’s hope for change. He understands that elected members are Parliament’s eyes and ears in our communities. He welcomes Members from all cultures and backgrounds, and has a keen intellect and respects debate.”

(emphasis mine)

So when you see the MSM title an article “Dissension in the ranks Tory senator unhappy with Harper’s Mideast stance” you should really verify which senator they are talking about. I bet Marjorie LeBreton is behind our PM all the way.

Shame on you Daily Herald Tribune.

Hezbollywood's Leading Lady – Unlucky Beirut Property Woman

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I guess a grandma in a babushka isn’t so memorable that she can be used several times. Unlike hiring Eva Longoria or Jessica Alba for the role of Bomb Magnet. Like Green Helmet Guy, this woman is being called Unlucky Beirut Property Woman.

A Lebanese woman wails after looking at the wreckage of her apartment, in a building, that was demolished by the Israeli attacks in southern Beirut July 22, 2006. REUTERS/Issam Kobeisi

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And here she is again.

A Lebanese woman reacts at the destruction after she came to inspect her house in the suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2006, after israeli warplanes repeatedly bombed the area overnight. Israeli commandos attacked near the southern city of Tyre early Saturday but were repelled by Hezbollah guerrillas who killed an Israeli member of the force and wounded others, the group said in a statement. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Notice the same black outfit with red stitching throughout. Notice the scar under the left eye? Notice the same spot under the right eye? Notice the same sad mouth curving downward drastically at the sides?

H/T to Shotgun via Jesse Gritter

CBC Circles The Wagons, Competitors Smell Blood

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We all know the MSM has been getting pounded for their primarily left leaning bias. Well things are getting quite interesting on two fronts.
One is when Stephen Taylor busted Christina Lawand of the CBC for juxtaposing a comment by the Prime Minister right after a Lebanese protesters statement that made him look quite cold and uncaring towards the Lebanese. The two clips took place in two different places and the PM’s statement was the tail end of a quote which asked him about much more than just the Lebanese Canadian feelings.

Well in the follow up post which Stephen takes a well deserved bow after Warren Kinsella comments on the bust, a commenter, Jay, posts his feedback from Jonathan Whitten, producer of CBC’s The National. You can read the comment and response here. Whitten doesn’t admit there was any wrong doing, but does admit they could have clarified the Prime Minister’s position a little better.

I do, however, agree with your concern about the structure of the report. The construction of the piece did make it appear the Prime Minister was responding directly to the woman protester, and that was not the case. We should have taken the time to make it clear that the Prime Minister was responding to a general question, and not a specific question about the woman’s concerns, and I regret that. While this does not constitute a misrepresentation of Mr. Harper’s position, or the position of his Government, the program could have, and should have, taken the time to be clear about what prompted the response.

The second front is the CTV hostile takeover attempt at the rights to Hockey Night in Canada. I have blogged about this before and the HNIC rights are one of the only profitable divisions of the CBC.

Right now, the CBC is paying about $65-million a year for broadcasting; TSN’s cable deal is worth about $15-million; and CTV-owned RDS’s Montreal Canadiens’ French-language agreement is for about $12-million.

That adds up to $92-million, meaning a CTV-TSN bid of $140-million would exceed the current amount by almost $50-million a year.

Could the CBC match that offer? Not likely. For starters, it doesn’t have a sports cable outlet. Therefore, it would bid only for English-language broadcast rights and perhaps French-language rights for Radio-Canada.

If the CTV offer gets accepted then you can pretty much kiss either the CBC goodbye, or a big whack of your tax dollars as the national entity appeals to the government for more financing to support itself.

Can we all start singing it now?

Ding dong the witch is dead…which old witch, the CBC Witch…
Ding dong the wicked witch is dead…..

Dan Matheson – Bitchslapping A Liberal Near You

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When ProudtobeCanadian embedded this clip on their site a couple of weeks ago, people cheered CTV newsman Dan Matheson for his hard hitting, non left wing, spins on the situation in Lebanon. A refreshing change from the typical socialist MSM.

Well Dan “The Man” Matheson has done it again. He bitchslaps Liberal MP Dan McTeague so hard in the clip below that McTeague goes from calling Matheson “Dan” to calling him “Mr. Matheson”.

Click the video below to watch it.

I am still waiting for Dan McTeague to apologize to Peter McKay.

CTV Bias Ties Harper To Bush But Leaves Some Knots Missing

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The CTV, in what amounts to severely biased reporting, is continuing to tie Stephen Harper to George Bush. ConservativeLife has pointed out the following headline.

Harper, Bush blame Hezbollah for current crisisYou might think this is accurate but the title omits three key facts:

1) (as pointed out by ConservativeLife) Liberal leader Bill Graham agrees with Bush and Harper.

But more importantly,

2) The G8 was unanimimous in their statement on the situation putting the blame squarely on Hezbollah, this they fully agree as well.

and (to tie in the bias)

3) Two key executives at CTV’s parent company ran the Ontario campaign for the Liberal Party of Canada in the election last January.

Hmmmmmm……

I smell fish and it isn’t even Friday.